Episode
Bonanza: A Bride for Buford
Overview
Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager ""Blackie"", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newfound wealth. Hoss suspects something and gets all duded up to pose as a rich mark to test Dolly.
Details
- Series
- Bonanza
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 1967-01-15
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
A Bride for Buford is Episode 18 in Season 8 of Bonanza. It aired on 1967-01-15. The runtime is 49 min.
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